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UKIP leader Nigel Farage has called for a lifting of the ban on handguns in the UK after shocking figures were released showing Britain is falling behind most of the developing and the developed world in the number of gun deaths per capita.

The leader of the UK Independence Party said the almost total ban was “ludicrous” in the face of figures which show the UK lagging even countries such as Guatamala, Brazil and El Salvador in mass shootings and near the bottom of world rankings in numbers of pupils killed in school massacres by gun-wielding teenage misfits with access to firearms.

In an interview with LBC Radio, Mr Farage said that handguns should be legalised if Britain wants to become a world player in the highly competitive crimes of violence markets:

“These figures are scandalous. High quality global gun crime requires investment – and we have to be prepared…

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.” – Abraham Lincoln

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